Swimming Sweet Arrow : A Novel
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0316355569 / Publisher: Back Bay Books, August 2001
A debut novel relates the coming-of-age story of Evangeline Starr Raybuck and June Keel, two high-school seniors who work at a chicken farm after school and who are beginning to explore their sexuality in their small town farming community. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
Read More
Evangeline Starr Raybuck -- plain-spoken, lusty, and hardworking -- and June Keel are high school seniors, best friends going out with best friends, working together at Noecker's chicken farm after school. Vangie and June make out with their boyfriends together in the same car; they pass dirty notes to each other during the day at school. They tell each other everything: "That was the kind of friends we were".After they graduate, things begin to shift. Vangie gets a job waitressing and moves in with Del; June, unable to get a job anywhere but the local factory, moves in with Ray and his older brother Luke. As they become more involved in their lives with their men, they see each other infrequently, but not so seldom that it doesn't become clear to Vangie that there's something dangerous going on, that June has crossed a line with the men in her life that even Vangie would not.
Read Less